At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center just outside Washington, a replica of the Landsat 7 Earthobserving satellite sits alongside a full-scale mockup of an asteroid as engineers work nearby to develop similar t...

It’s truthful — but woefully inadequate — to say that Patti Grace Smith brilliantly led the Office of Commercial Space Transportation through its first 12 years inside the Federal Aviation Administration. Movin...

The real test of any partnership is not when things are going well but when they are not. While success can paper over differences, failures can exacerbate them, revealing the real problems that exist between i...

The most important development in the global space sector in the past 20 years has been the spectacular increase in Chinese spending on rockets large and small, an astronaut corps, satellites for science, Earth...

In a little-noticed provision in the 2016 defense authorization bill, Congress asked the heads of the Missile Defense Agency and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to begin figuring out what a new sp...

PLANET LABS is shortening its name but expanding its board. The company, which is developing a constellation of Earth imaging cubesats, will now be known as PLANET. Joining Planet’s board of directors is CARL B...